SocietyFeature
How Maine’s Time Limit on Welfare Pushed One Woman to Pull Herself Out of Poverty
Jill Rothrock knows the moment she hit rock bottom. It was 2007, and Rothrock went into the pharmacy in Bucksport, Maine, to pick up a… Read More
SocietyNews
Meet the Woman Who Oversaw Maine’s Welfare Reform
For Mary Mayhew, reforming the state’s welfare system hasn’t been easy. But the impact those reforms have had on Maine residents makes it all worth… Read More
Economy Commentary
Kansas Required Work for Food Stamps. Here’s What Happened.
Abraham Lincoln once said, “No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something… Read More
SocietyFeature
A Preacher Turned Lawmaker and His New Campaign to Win the Old War on Poverty
Greensboro, N.C.—Mark Walker spent his childhood in and out of prison. He wasn’t an inmate, but the chaplain’s son at one of Alabama’s minimum-security state… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Maine’s Successful Welfare Reform and Why It Worked
States are often the best laboratories for testing out what public policies will make life better for their citizens. Maine’s experiment with welfare reform is a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Why More States Are Requiring Work Requirements for Food Stamps
Newspaper headlines have been bemoaning that more states will now have to require adults on food stamps—who are able-bodied and without dependents—to work. Since 2009,… Read More
SocietyNews
Welfare System Is ‘Anti-Work,’ Researchers Say
The war on poverty is a war on work, the authors of a new book that criticizes the nation’s welfare system assert. Phil Harvey, chief… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How Liberal Policies Destroyed Black Families
This piece has been adapted from Crystal Wright’s new book: “Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division.” It’s well… Read More
SocietyCommentary
8 Conservative Policies That Will Reduce Poverty
According to a new Associated Press/NORC poll, 72 percent of Americans rate “reducing poverty” as “extremely” or “very important.” This includes 62 percent of Republicans,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Self-Sufficiency, Not Government Spending, Should Be the Measure of Antipoverty Progress
This week President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services reached the startling conclusion that if massive welfare programs such as food stamps and… Read More
